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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would hope you’d think about the impact on others, not just yourself. Who is picking up your slack? As a fellow fed supervisor, I would not do this to my team. I might take a few weeks, then come back part time. I would not be completely away for 1/4 of a year. [/quote]

Fed supervisor here at a good agency- I completely disagree. Sounds like your agency needs better succession planning. Anyone can give 2 weeks notice at any time. 12 weeks is nbd. 6 months might be harder since they never bring on any temps at federal agencies. [/quote]

This. You have to plan for anybody on the team to suddenly quit or die, because it could happen to any of us. It's the managers job to have people cross train and document, and to bring people in on her decision making so they know what she'd do. It's the organization's job to hire enough staff.

You do nobody any favors when you compensate for poor planning and staffing by not taking your earned time off. Why should they fix anything if you won't let it fail?[/quote]

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This is a great opportunity to get things organized and make sure staff is up to speed and read in on what needs to get done and how.  I worked at an agency like this for 15 years—any one of the more experienced staff could fill in for the supervisor if they were gone for a few months.  NBD[/quote]

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